Shrine Empire presents Shadows in the Sky by Sarker Protick. Darkness dissolves as ink in the sky, pomegranate seeds erupt in a mother’s hand, and pillars of concrete stand unmoving, caught in the stupor of progress. The rain remains as a scent, an exuberant disorder, a lingering drop in the frame. In Akash Kalo Megh (Shadows in the Sky), Protick Sarkar excavates the circadian image, steeped in the minor durations that comprise the weft of biographical time—all the works on display germinate in his hometown of Dhaka, in the radius of the neighbourhood he has always lived in.
